HT201412 My IPhone screen shows a persistant apple logo and does nothing as if frozen

My IPhone has a persistant apple logo on the screen. It does not turn on or off and acts like it is frozen. I took it to the A T&T store and they suggested going to the Apple store. Is there anything I can do before having to drive 2 hours to get to the store?

This is not a virus, unless you have jailbroken those devices. If you have, a total restore to factory settings is required, both to remove the jailbreak and to remove whatever malware you might have installed.
As for a cause, what "security screen" are you seeing? Are you able to unlock those devices?
Most likely, since both were affected at the same time, in the same way, someone has hacked your iCloud account and is using it to remotely lock or wipe both of those devices. You should probably change your iCloud account password ASAP.
Further, if your iCloud account is also your Apple ID, you should enable two-factor authentication on your Apple ID. This will prevent a hacker from taking full control and locking you permanently out of your Apple ID and iCloud account. If that were to happen, and those devices are running iOS 7, you will be unable to unlock them again, even with Apple's help.

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